Escapement means for typographical machines



Jan. 19, 1932. s. E. SPERRY 1,342,354

ESCAPEMENT MEANS FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES Filed May 31, 1950 2 Sheets-Sheet l ia INVENTOR ATTORNEY Jan. 19, 1932. s. E. SPERRY 1,842,354

ESCAPEMENT MEANS FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES Filed May 51, 1930 2 Sheets-She t 2 INVENTOR ATTORN EY Patehted Janljl lt), 1932 unites STATES PATIENT 0 m time; n. srnenv or Hours, New YORK, ASSIGINOR T0 :rnrncaryrn CORPORATION, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION or new YORK E-soAPEMEn'r MEANS son TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES Application filed May 31,.

The jpresent invention relates to improvements in, typographical machines and more especially to those of the generalclass disjclosed in S. Letters Patent-No. 4365391 granted September 16,1890 toO, Mergen thaler, wherein matrices which are assembled, into lines for the casting oi -type bars or slugs therefrom are stored in magazines which are inclined forwardly and downwardly and the matricesare delivered trom the lower forward endsOf the magazines under the control 1 of escapemcnts which are actuated Icy a; keyboard at the front of the 111210111118.

So ne'machines of this class have been "heretofore constructed to receive and use magazines carrying escapements for controldifferent channels thereof, such escapements ling the delivery ofthe matrices from the on the magazines being brought into position to be actuated by the keyboard mechanism ot-the machine when such magazines are placed in operativepesltlon and preventing spilling ot'the inatricesfromthe lower ends of the. magazines when the latter are removed from operative position in the machine, and other machines of thisclass have been hereto'fore constructed, to receive and use maga- V zines which do not carry matrix controlling ter aremoimted in the machine, to control the delivery of matrices therefrom,- but such escapements remain in the machine when the magazines are removed therefrom, the use of a matrix locking bar across the lower or matrix delivery end of such magazines being required to prevent-c spilling of matrices therefrom at alltimes except when the ma-gm zines were mounted in the machine.

Such machines have presented the objectionthat each of suchtypes of machines was ableto use only magazines of the particular typefor which they were constructedflhat is machines of the type constructed to use magazint-as carrying their own matrix con- 1930. Serial No. 458,427.

trolling escapements could not usemagazines s of the type not carrying escapements, and

'vice versa with the result that the rangeot',

from'either typeot magazine under control of the same escapement actuating means.

More particularly the Object of the inven tion isto provide means for adapting a typo graphical machine of this class to receive matrix magazines of the types 'either with or without their own escapements by detach:

ably or removably applying escapement 70 means to the machine to cooperate with magazines not equippedwith their Own escapements, so that such escapement means and the escapements of magazines equipped with their own escapements will cooperate with the same escapement actuating reeds inthe machine, the .escapein'ent means for magazines not equipped with theirown escapements being removable from the machine so that they will not obstruct the escapements of a magazine equipped with its own escapements when such a magazine is substituted therefor. r

By enabling machines of this class to thus interchangeably receive and use magazines both of the type containing controlling escapements and those of the type not containmg such escapements the users of such machines are enabled to use all machines on hand of both types andthus utilize the-full supply or assortment of matrix fontsavailable with substantially uniform facility;

To these and other ends, the invention consists in certain improvements and combina tions and arrangements of parts all as will behereinafter more fullydescribed, the features of novelty being pointed out particu- V larly in the claims atitheend of the specification.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. l is a side elevation of the upper portion of a typographical machine embodying the present invention;

F ig. 2 is a side elevation, on an enlarged scale, of the lower or matrix delivery ends of the matrix magazines as shown in Fig. 1, the lowermost magazine being of the type containing matrix controlling escapements and the two upper magazines being of the type not containing such escapements but cooperating with escapement means removably or det-achably mounted in the machine;

Fig. 3 is afview similar to Fig. 2 but showing the magazines rocked into position for removal and the escapement means removed from operative relation with the upper magazines;s I 1 Fig.4 is an enlarged view-in perspective showing collectively one of the escapement carrier's and"a.portion of the machine on which-it is detachably mounted and Fig-5 is a rear elevation of one end of the escapementcarrier shown in Fig. 4.

Similar parts are designated by the same referencecharactersin the several figures.

The inventioiris shown in the accompany ing-drz'iwings and will be hereinafter described in detailas' applied to a machine of well"known type in which a plurality of matria magazines are arranged in a stack so that the ends thereof'are 1n offset or staggered relation toone anot-herand the stack is shlftable to bring-any selected magazine into opei-ativ'e--;position'withrespect to the usual assembling and dlstributing mechanisms of theanachine;but-it is to be-understoodthat the-inventionis-applicable to other forms of typographicalmachinesand that the inven- "supporting an assembler front 2 leading to suitable mechanism which assembles the matrices in'ilines preparatory to the cast-ing of type: bars or slugs therefrom, and 3 represents thezdistributing mechanism which retujrns-the-matrices to the magazine from which they were' drawn, after the type bar or slug has, beencast fromthe matrix line, the. assembling, and distributing mechanisms being, for :exrnnple, similar to those commonlyused in machines of this class so that further illustration and description thereof is unnecessary. Three matrix magazines, a and 5 are shown, each magazine embody- ,ing top and bottom plates grooved to receive matrices edgewise between them and to contain a font of matrices, the magazines being mounted respectively on three similar frames 6 so that they form a stack and lie in a forwardly and downwardly inclined position so that the matrices delivered to their upper ends fromthe distributing aechanism will slide downwardly therein by gravity and the-matrices in these magazines, when released, will descend by gravity from their lower ends and drop into the assembled front, in a well known manner. The magazine z-iupporting frames are connected together in proper spaced relation by brackets and ll at the side edges thereof, the magazine frames being so related that the upper and lower ends of the magazines will be in offset or staggered relation to one another, as will be clear from Fig. 1. The magazine stack is arranged to shift forwardly and rearwardly in any desired way to-bring any seiectei magazine therein into operative relation nnih the assembled front 2 and distributor mechanism 3, magazine shifting mechanism of this kind being well known in the art so that detailed illustration and description thereof is deemed unnecessary,

although it may be noted that the magazine stack and the supporting frames therefor in be present instance are shown mounted on a carrier 12 which is supported at each side thereof 'to shift forwardly and rearwardly and to rock on a roller 13 arranged in fixed position on the frame of the machine the forward portion of the carrier having a track '2 thereonwhich rides on a roller 8 carried by a lever 9 which is pivoted at 9 on the main frame, a second lever 90 being also pivotally mounted-at 9 and connected by a lever 91 the magazine carrier, so that the magazine stack mayoccupy either a forwardly and downwardly inclined position with its track "I tes ng on the roller 8 shown by the full lines in Fig. 1, in which position the lower and upper ends of the magazines will be in operative relation with the assembler front and distributor mechanism, and one or another of the magazines in the stack may bebrought into 'operativeposition by first lowering the lever 9, thereby raising the roller 8 and track 7 and the forward ends of the magazines so that theywill be lifted above the escapement actuators, then swinging the lever 90, thereby shifting the magazine stack forwardly or rearwardly as required to bring the desired magazine into proper position, and then raising the lever 9 and thereby lowering the selected magazine into operative position, or the magazine stack may be rocked into a reaiwvardlv and downwardly inclined position about the centers of the rollers 13 as an axis, as shown bythc dotted lines in Fig. 1, in which position the magazines will be accessible for removal from their supportin frames, substantially as shown and described in U. 55. Letters Patent No. 1,731,154

granted October 8, 1929, to S. E, Sperry, the

the escapements controllingth'e delivery of the matrices from the magazines, maybe of any desired form, they being indicated in the present instance as consisting of vertically lQ movable-rods or reeds 14; sucl as those commonly llSBCliIl machines oi; this class, the

upper endsol' theserods being guidedin the mechanism] of themachine, p a 1n the instance shown,;'the twoyupper gmagjethese rods cooperate-with the usual keyboard i no matrixQ controlling escapements built thereon, these niagazinesbeing provided with any suitable or known form of matrix lock mg bars 15, those shown being slidable across the lower or matrix deliveryends of these magazines sothat when in position they Will i lliebetween the lugson the upperedges of the t lowermost matrices in the respectivemagazines and thereby prevent sp lling of these inatriees and the rest of the matrices resting thereon from these-magazines whenithe-lat- Qjx'iler are i'emovedfrom operativepositioii n the machine or are not in use, these locking b arsbeingshown in place in; Fig-Svvherein 1011 the magazines are shown shiftedout of oper ative position in the machine and the separate tached relation thereto,

impl ii'ed escapement means for maga- 3wescapements for these magazines are in d e-f zines of the typehaving no escapements con tained thereon is shown ii the present in- QQ- jStfiIHCe as comprising a solid bar 16 which is formed atits upper side with surfaces. on-

which are monnted a pair of rails 17 having channels 18 cutthereinand spaced to correspend w th the spacing of the usual matrix guiding. channels or grooves in the bottom;

plate of the inagazine the rails 17 being adapted to enter slots 19 which extend across the bottom plate of the magazine 4 adjacent to the lower orvmatrix delivery endthereof.

59 'lhe portionof the bar 16 beneath the rails *17is-provided with a series of slots 20 corresponding in width and spacing to the width 1 and locat on ofv the channels 18 in the rails 17, and 'an'escapeinent or verge Qliscoh- 55 gtained in'each oft-hose slots in thebar it, the

escapei'nents being of arcuate iiorm, andaa correspondingly arcuate or transversely cuate escapement to 'in pawls which are movable alternately into thechannels 18 of the 3 bars 17 by the rockingmovementof the cs: 65 capeinentr Eaeh escapement provided I thrm'erhtherein betweenits ends;

upper portionof the main stationary httllleillO reciprocate.vertically and the lower ends t with arspring 23 having one end bent or formed to bear 011 a lug 21 0n the IGSPGCUVQ escapement to hold it in normal. position as 1 shown injFi g. l and to return it tosuch position after each actuation thereof, these" springs entering the slots and being se cured tothe bar 16by fitting their ends tightly intoholes 24L which are formed in a row or series along the underside of the bar 16, a

each spring being preferably composed of springwire and having aresilient coil 23 ntends through the ,slotted portion of the bar 16. These fescapements cooperate with thematrices in the magazine toco'ntrol the delivery of tr e-inatrices therefrom'substantially in the mannerdescribed in U. S; Let- I ters Patent No; 1,153,078 granted September 7, 1915 to T. S.. Homans, it being clearfrom jl ig; 2-.thatwhen the escapeinent is in its normal position the lower pawl thereon will engage the lowermost matrix in the magazine toprevent its delivery tlierefrombut when the pawl is rockedinto a reverseposi a tron against the action of the spring 23, the

lower pawl of theescapementwill be lowered out of engagement with the lowermost matrix,

Q thus permitting its delivery from themaga} zine while at; the same b11116 the upperpawl theescapemei t willbe raised to catch and i hold the next following matrix, and upon The series oi escapements areretained inthe respective slotsfin the bar 16 by aqwire pin 25 which the return of the escapement to normal posiftion, the upper pawlthereoii will be lowered out o iengagement with the ,matrixwhich;

it engages and the lower pawl on the escape;.

men-t will be raised toycatch such matrix, it

being assumed that'the magazine is then in operative position in the machine and the locking bar 15 is withdrawn.

Wieansis provided for detachably mount; ing the escapement meanson any of the a magazine supporting framesfofthe machine so that when mounted on such frame it will be in operative relation with a magazine thereoii of the type. not provided with its own escapeinents and with the usual escapeinent actuating reeds in the.machine. Inthe construction shown, a; pa r of arms 26iare fixed to the ends of the escapement carry 1 ing bai-16, the inner cornersjat the ends of these arms-being formed with bevelled surfaces 27 andthe arms being provided at their inner sideswith holes or recesses 28, and eachof the magazine supporting frames 6 is provided at its opposite sides with springpressed plungers or detents 29 which pro-l ject outwardly or laterally from surfaces 30 atthe outer sides of these frames, these Q 3 surfaces bearing against the inner sides of A! the arms 26' and thereby accurately positiona in'g theescapeiiient carrying bar 16 in a direction transversely of amagazme on the,

framee when the, escapement means is ap 5, niagazine frame.

operative andinoperative positions with re-\ spectto a magazine on the respective frame 6, this being accomplished in the present in- :stance byrproviding spring-pressed detents 31*which project outwardly from the respective surfaces 30011 the frame 6 and are adaptedto engage in either of two vertically spaced holes'or 'recesses32 in the innersides of the respective arms .26 of the escapement means,

theengag'ement of the detent 31 in the lower hole 32 holding the-escapement means-in its upper-position and'in cooperative relation with-the magazine onthe respective frame as shovvn-in F ig.f2iand the engagement of this detentwith'the upper hole 32 holding the escapement means in a disengaged posit on-relatlvely to-the magazine as shown in Fig. By rounding the outer or exposed "ends of -the-detents 29 as shown, these detents will ride upon the bevelled surfaces 27 on thearms-26 and will be thereby forced inwardly while the escapement means is being applied totheframe 6, then spring outwvardly'into the-holes or recesses 28 when the escapementmeans reaches its properpositionand the escapement-means may be detached from thefranie 6-by applying a pullin'g'force thereto, the rounded outer ends of I the detents 29 'causing them to be pushed inwardly and disengaged from the holes or recesses 28', and by; similarly rounding the outer orexposed ends of-the detents 31, they will be ---automatieally disengaged i from one or-the other'ofthe holes orrecesses 32 when suflicient verticalforce is applied to the escapementmeans to swing it into operative or -inoperativepositionabout the detents 29 acting as? pi-votsi It will be understood-that prior to swinging theesca'pement means from the upper operative position shown-in Fig.

2"to the lower'or inoperative position shown in**Fig.-"3, *the locking bar 15 is 'insertedin the *n 1agazine to lock'the matrices against spilling from the lower or'm'atri delivery endthereof, since the escapem'ent means when swung into-the inoperative position shown in Fig. 3, no longer controls thematrices in the respective magazines. In order to remove either of-themagazines 4 when desired, it is only necessary to insert thelockingbar and then depress the escapement means by pushing downwardly on its forward end so that itis brought into the position shown in Fig. 3, it being then disengagedfr'o'm the magazine and the latter may be removed by sliding it rearwardly on its frame, as indicated by the arrow in said Thelowermostmagazine 5 of the stack is escapements, this magazine being shown provided with escapements-21 which'remain at tached to or "form a part of the magazine, they being-like the escapements shown in the Homans Patent No.- 1,153,078 hereinbefore referred to, and magazines of this type do not require the application of an escapement attachment or a locking bar thereto. Accordingly, in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, escapement attachments are applied to the magazine frames which support the two uppermost magazines 4-but no escapement attachment is applied to the frame supporting thelowermost magazine 5 although'the frame supporting this magazine is preferably provided with the detents 2 9 and 31 so that it may rcceive an escapement attachment when a magazine of thetype-not carrying escapements is 'mounted on this frame.

In practice, the machine may be constructed substantially asshown in'Figs. 1 to 3 inelusive, the magazine supporting frames 6 being'all provided with'the detents 29=and 31' toward their forward ends and these frames may all receive magazines of the type carrying their own escapements, like the lowermost magazine 5 or magazines not provided with suchescapements but using a locking bar, likethe two uppermost magazines 4, or magazines ofboth types may-be mounted on the different frames. In order to enable magazines of the type'not provided-with-escapenients to be used in a machine c0nstructed to use magazines carrying their own escapements or to be used ina machine contaming one-or more magazines carrying their own escapements, it'is-only'necessary to apply the escapement means to the magazine supporting frames 6 on which the magazines not containing escapements are mounted, the detents 29 and 31 removably holding the escapement, means on such frames and when the escapement means are swung upwardly into operative position and the locking bar or bars are withdrawn from the respectivemagazines, such escapement means will control the delivery of matrices from the respective magazines. Preferably, the operating portions 21 and 21 of the escapements, with which the escapementactuators 14 cooperate, are alined or similarly located with respect to the different 'magazines so that shifting of the magazines in a forward or rearward direction to bring one or another of the magazines into operative relation with the: assembler front 2 and the distributor m-chanism 3 will also bring the escapements of the selected magazine into proper working relation with the escapement actuators 14, so that operation of the escapement actuators, under the control of the usual keyboard, will cause actuation of the escapements of the magazine in operative position and will cause delivery of matrices therefrom to the ofthe-type which contains matrix controlling escapements do notinterfere with the shift ing movements of the magazine stack to erative position, they receiving the escape mentactuators 14 between the arms 26 and in rearofthe bar 16. Removal of any mag azine not provided with its own escapemonts maybe effected quickly after the locking bar 15 has been applied thereto and the respective escapement means has been SWllIlgdOWlh magazine is replaced by one carrying its own escapements. the escapement means may quicklybe detached from the magazine frame receiving escapement meansis applied to a magazine frame Whenever a frame. V

The present invention provides simplified and improved means to enable the same ma chine to receive and use magazines either of the type provided With their own matrix con.- trollingescapements or those of the type not provided with their 0WD escapements, the machine being operative interchangeably with either or both types off-magazines and enabling the user to utilize With equal facility. all matrix fonts on hand, Whether they attachments for magazines not equipped with their own escapements and the escapeown esoapements cooperating in the same manner With the set of escapement actuators changeably supporting a matrix magazine f equipped with matrix controlling escape mentsito cooperate iththe cscapemcnt actu ators and a magazine'not equipped with such escapements, and removable escapeinent means toj'cooperate With themagazine not equipped with escapements and vith' the capement actuators, whereby said actuators may'controlthe; delivery of matrices from eitherofsuoh magazines. i p

2. In a typographical machine having a set of escapement actuators, means for supportinga-magazine stack including a plural ity of framesto receive the respective magahaving means for. removably connecting them to said magazine receiving frames and supporting them independently of magazines thereon in cooperative relation therewith.

3. In a typographical machine having a bring any selected magazine'therein into op- Wardly into inoperative position and if'such like the lowermost magazine 5,

such amagazine, it being understood that the magazine not provided with 1ts own escapements is mounted on such are contained in either or both types of mag ments in the magazines equipped with their set of escapement actuators, means forhinterzines, and escapement-carrying attachments V set of e'scapement actuators, meansfor sup-' porting a stack ofmatrix magazmes therem,

and escapement-carrying attachments having means lndependentofthe magazines for interchangeably mounting said attachments in the machine in operative relation vvith the differ 'ntmagazines in the stack.

4;. In a typographical machine having a set of escapement actuators, means forsupportinga plurality of matrix magazines, and

an escapement carrier removably mountedon one or another f said magazine supporting means to ccoperatexvith theescapement actustore and the magazine thereon to'control the delivery of matrices therefrom, said carrier being supported independently of the magazines and movable onthe respective magazine supporting means to and from operativera lation with the magazine thereon. i p 5. In a typographical machinethavlnga set of escapement actuators,'means for supporting astaclro f matrix magazines including a plurality of frames to receive the respective magazines, and escapement carrying attachments to cooperate with the escapement actuators and themagazines, said magazine receiving frames having means-for removably attaching the attachments thereto.

6. In a. typographical machine having a:

set of escapement actuators, frames for sup carrying attachments to cooperate Withthe escapement actuators and magazines on said tachments to said frames.

7. In a typographical machine having a set of escapcment actuators, frames for supporting matrixmagazines, and escapement' porting matrix magazines, and escapement carrying attachments to cooperate With the 'escapement actuators andmagazmes 011 said frames, said frames having spring-pressed plungers thereon and each of said attach ments having recesses therein to cooperate with said plungers and thereby hold the es-V capement carrylngattachment 1n operative and inoperative relationships with the respective magazine.

another into operative relation therewith and comprising magazines equipped vvlth matrix .escapements and magazines not equipped With such escapements, and removable escapement me ans to cooperate wlth the latter magazines and With the escapement actuators.

9. In a typographical machine having a set of escapement actuators, magazine supporting frames carrying a plurality of mag y 9115 v 8. In atypographical machine having a .set of escapement actuators, a plurality of magazines movable bodlly to bring one or 1 'ing capable ofreoeiving magazines with eseapements andmagazines not having escapements, and escapement means detachably asvsociatedwwith' the'magazines not having es- 5 eapements and with the ,escapeinent actuassnpporting frames to clear the escapement" qtors, said means when in active'position being free to move with the magazines and their actuators;

X110 :10. Matrix control g escapement meg-ms for matrix magazines not equipped with es- -cape1nents and having slots extending across the bottom thereof, comprising a bar having slotted rails on its upper side to removably enter the slots in-the bottom of the magazine,

said bar having transverse slots therein beneath said rails, single escapeinent paWls niovablyr mounted in the respective slots, and

' controlling springs forthe eseapements exany-hand.

" tending into saidslots.

1Intestimony-Whereof I have hereunto set SAMUEL E. SPERRY. 

